he sold a production plant to monterey, mexico in 1970. i was young at the time, he was probably 45 years old, worked hard all his life, and i remember his face when that production plant went to moderate. we moved to houston to be closer administratively. but now i am in florida and i am concerned about some of the comments i heard about atlantic feeling. i grew up -- atlantic drilling. i grew up on the gulf coast trip it was oil, oil, oil. i remember two huge refinery explosions. you are swimming in oil-laced water and the sand it was solid tar. in florida we don't manufacture anything. our economy is tourism. from late september to april, that is our economy. we could be, with some government funding, the solar capital of the country. i have lived through hurricanes, losing my power for weeks at a time, because the infrastructure is so poor. not a lot of people can afford solar, but if you drive from east to west coast, every light pole is solar power. if we could start a manufacturing here, we could bring costs down and people would in